Linux

Description

The Linux plugin lets you perform system administration tasks on remote Linux machines over SSH. It supports managing users, services, sessions, and processes, as well as checking disk utilization and running custom commands. The plugin connects using a hostname, port, username, and password or private key. Use this plugin when your workflows need to automate server maintenance, monitor system health, or manage Linux infrastructure remotely.

Prerequisites

Root user (administrator) can execute all the steps. However, for normal user consider the following, In case of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.0 (Maipo), when you want to run a command that requires root rights, Linux checks your username against the sudoers file. Linux is built with security in mind. The sudoers file is a file Linux Administrators use to allocate system rights to system users. This allows the administrator to control who does what. Necessary user entry is required in the ‘sudoers’ file and also, the ‘sudoers’ file must have the neccessary permissions to make these changes. However, on Debian based systems e.g. Ubuntu if your process is started by super user, we won't be able to kill that process using this plugin because Ubuntu does not allow direct access to super user processes. This is applicable to Ubuntu 16.04 mentioned above.

Common Buttons

No.	Field Name	Description
	Buttons
1	OK	On click of this button. It will check the field values. If any required field values are missing, then it will display validation error message. If all the required field values are provided then it will save the field values.
2	Cancel	On click of this button, it will cancel the window and do not save any values.